Infrastructure / Configuration Management Using Chef Training

Course #:WA2591

Infrastructure / Configuration Management Using Chef Training

Our Chef infrastructure configuration management course introduces you to Chef concepts. Chef is a tool to automate the management of infrastructure – configuring and maintaining computing resources for rapid deployment and scaling. Chef configuration management has become a cornerstone of cloud and virtualized data centers, and a valuable tool in the implementation of a DevOps approach to delivering customer value.e.

The Chef configuration management course will provide attendees with an understanding of the principles of DevOps and shows students how to use OpsCode Chef as a tool to manage computing infrastructure.

Chef can run in client/server mode, or in a standalone configuration named "chef-solo". In client/server mode, the Chef client sends various attributes about the node to the Chef server. Chef recipes can query these attributes and use the resulting data to help configure the node.

In this Chef configuration management attendees will learn how to:

Create recipes and cookbooks for standard infrastructure management

Use the OpsCode Chef infrastructure to manage nodes

Use the ‘Ohai’ tool to understand the facts captured by Chef.

Use the ‘knife’ tool to interact with the Chef server and bootstrap nodes.

Use TestKitchen to test Chef cookbooks.

Use Foodcritic and Rubocop to check cookbooks for common problems.

Our Chef infrastructure configuration management course continues to be in high demand. The topics covered in the course are:

Introduction to DevOps

Basic Chef Concepts

Chef Single-server installation

A little bit of Ruby

Recipes and cookbooks

Testing with TestKitchen

Identifying common problems with FoodCritic and RuboCop

The Hosted Chef Server

Chef Multi-Server installation

Understanding the roles and environments

Web Age OpsCode Chef Training can be delivered in traditional classroom style format. Web Age OpsCode Chef Training course can also be delivered in a synchronous instructor led format.

This course will provide students with an understanding of the principles of DevOps, and show students how to use OpsCode Chef as a tool to manage computing infrastructure.

Objectives

In this training, attendees will learn how to:

Create recipes and cookbooks for standard infrastructure management

Use the OpsCode Chef infrastructure to manage nodes

Use the ‘Ohai’ tool to understand the facts captured by Chef.

Use the ‘knife’ tool to interact with the Chef server and bootstrap nodes.